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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Dumps Water Data Project

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-wasn't-the-plan dept.

littlekorea writes "Australia's weather bureau has racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system, based on Red Hat Linux, MySQL and Java, that was originally scheduled to cost somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. The Bureau's supplier, an ASX-listed IT services provider SMS Management and Technology, did a good job of embedding itself in the bureau, with all changes having to be made by the original consultant that built it."

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  1. beta boycott next week! by rr_at_slashdot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    See you all back on February 17!

  2. Re:We are not an audience by PGC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Must be something wrong with the comments system, `cause I could swear I had replied to this... Once more then: See http://meta.slashdot.org/story... .

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  3. Re:We are not an audience by PGC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up

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    The Dutch will inherit the earth. If not, we'll settle for a bit of ocean. Beta delenda est!
  4. So this is how Slashdot dies. by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Much like Digg did. How sad.

    1. Re:So this is how Slashdot dies. by StripedCow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      The worst part of it is: M$ will outlive Slashdot...

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  5. Fuck BETA by puffingbear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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